NO TO EXORBITANT RENTS AT N2 GATEWAY! NORMALISE OUR RENTS!
NO TO MANAGEMENT FROM JOHANNESBURG! VOETSAK THUBELISHA!
WE WANT LOCAL MANAGEMENT UNDER OUR CONTROL! Read the rest of this entry »
N2 Gateway flats to March on Zille to demand community management and acceptable rents – Tuesday
27 06 2009
AEC Press Release
On behalf of the N2 Gateway Phase 1 Flats (also known as Joe Slovo Phase 1)
Event: Residents of the N2 Gateway flats will march on Helen Zille to demand radical changes in the project’s management and normalization of rents
When: 11h00 on 30 June 2009
Where: from Keizersgracht to the provincial office of Helen Zille
Contact: Luthando 079 896 6126 at and Jimmy at 073 158 4835
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Tags: joe slovo phase 1, N2 Gateway flats, N2 Gateway Residents Committe
Categories : Anti-Eviction Campaign, Archives, Joe Slovo, News & Press Release
Opinion: Listen to the shack-dwellers
24 06 2009
KERRY CHANCE, MARIE HUCHZERMEYER AND MARK HUNTER: COMMENT – Jun 24 2009 06:00
Source: Mail & Guardian
Tens of thousands of shack-dwellers in South Africa are doomed to be evicted to transit camps.
Last week the Constitutional Court gave the green light for the eviction of 20 000 people from Cape Town’s Joe Slovo settlement to make way for the N2 Gateway Project. Most residents are to be relocated to the Delft temporary relocation area (TRA).
In 2005, 2 400 families from Langa, Cape Town, were relocated to a camp called Tsunami. In Johannesburg, 6 400 families in Protea South, Soweto, fought a plan to move them to a decant camp in 2007. In Durban, 52 families in Siyanda, KwaMashu, were evicted in December last year and moved to a transit camp to make way for a new freeway. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: apartheid, Decant Camp, Happy Valley, joe slovo, Sol Plaatje, TRA, Transit Camp, Tsunami
Categories : Archives, Mainstream and Other News, opinion / academic articles
Media: City gives law firm the boot
24 06 2009Note: The City of Cape Town is constantly spending money on lawyers and legal fees because of all the court cases they are involved in against the people of Cape Town. This makes it difficult for communities such as Macassar AbM and Symphony Way AEC to get any pro-bono support from city law firms who do not want to lose their money coming from the City.
23 June 2009 Anna Majavu – The SowetanFury at handling of shack case
THE city of Cape Town has purged a major law firm because it took on a case for the Abahlali baseMjondolo shack dwellers movement. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Raylene Keightley, Smith Tabata Buchanan Boyes, South African Council of Churches, Vusumzi Matinkinca
Categories : Archives, Macassar, Mainstream and Other News
Media: Traders agree to ‘price-fixing’
23 06 2009By Francis Hweshe
The tension could be cut with a knife as Gugulethu traders and their Somali counterparts met to thrash out their differences, finally agreeing to effectively fix prices on basic goods, including bread. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: francis hweshe, price fixing, somalian traders, xenophobia
Categories : Afrophobia (Xenophobia), Archives, gugulethu, Mainstream and Other News
No Justice for Gympie Street!
22 06 2009Woodstock AEC Press Release
Monday 22 June 2009
Monday 22 June 2009
On the 17th of June, the Cape High Court ruled in favour of Pastor Dennis Robertson, which means many people in Gympie Street are officially homeless. On the weekend only two families in Gympie Street were provided with alternative accommodation arranged by Councillor Shehaam Sims, most were not. This means most of the people that were evicted have not been provided with alternative accommodation, which is blatantly unconstitutional. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Gympie Street, illegal evictions, Pastor Dennis Robertson, Shehaam Sims
Categories : Anti-Eviction Campaign, Archives, News & Press Release, Woodstock
Media: Joe Slovo residents defy move to Delft
22 06 2009
21 June 2009, 13:32
By Nwabisa Msutwana-Stemela
Source: Mercury
Tension is mounting in Langa near Cape Town as informal settlers from Joe Slovo slowly fill up every available piece of open land in the more established areas. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Constitutional Court, delft, Dfiso Zulu, land occupation, langa, Thubelisha Homes
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News
Opinion – Joe Slovo eviction: Vulnerable community feels the law from the top down
22 06 2009Sandra Liebenberg – Business Day
Published: 2009/06/22 06:49:37 AM
OVER a period of 10 months commencing on August 17, the largest judicially sanctioned eviction of a community in SA’s post-apartheid period will take place. The 20000-strong impoverished community of the Joe Slovo informal settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town will be required to relocate 15km away to a temporary relocation area in Delft. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Albie Sachs, Concourt, meaningful engagement, N2 Gateway, Sandra Liebenberg
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News, opinion / academic articles
Argus: Joe Slovo residents defy move to Delft
21 06 2009
June 21 2009 at 01:32PM
By Nwabisa Msutwana-Stemela
Tension is mounting in Langa near Cape Town as informal settlers from Joe Slovo slowly fill up every available piece of open land in the more established areas.
Joe Slovo residents, many of whom were moved to make way for the Gateway project and who do not want to move to residential units in Delft, have settled in other parts of Langa in their hundreds and erected shacks.
More move in almost every day and some Langa residents have now called for the authorities and community leaders to intervene. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: joe slovo, land occupation, langa, Mayenzeke Sopaqa, Sfiso Zulu
Categories : Archives, Joe Slovo, Mainstream and Other News
RIGHTS-SOUTH AFRICA: Xenophobia Still Smouldering
19 06 2009By Mandisi Majavu – IPS News
CAPE TOWN, Jun 19 (IPS) – “My worry is that my children are going to be slaves because they won’t have anything. These foreign people come to South Africa with nothing, but tomorrow he has cash, third day he owns a shop and fourth day he has a car. Where do these foreign people get this money?”
Small business owners are venting their frustrations on ‘foreign nationals’ – among them many Somalis – who own shops in the country’s townships, causing experts to warn that xenophobic violence could increase. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Masiphumelele, poor-on-poor violence, Samora Machel, Somali shopkeepers, South African Somali Association, xenophobia
Categories : Afrophobia (Xenophobia), Archives, gugulethu, Mainstream and Other News
Media: In Macassar, June 16 is no cause to celebrate
18 06 2009Evictees rally to ‘decelebrate’ Youth Day
June 17, 2009 Edition 1
Fouzia van der Fort – Cape Argus
YOUTH Day was no cause for celebration for the people evicted from Macassar Village land earmarked for formal housing, and their fellow shack dwellers turned out to support them in their protest to “de- celebrate” June 16.
Representatives from different informal settlements across the Peninsula, along with members of the shack dwellers group Abahlali baseMjondolo, toyi-toyied in protest at the site yesterday. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: fight for freedom, Joseph Jantjies, Theliwe Macekiswana, youth day
Categories : Archives, Macassar, Mainstream and Other News
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